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Easily digestible tech news....Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/07565730182/nokia-ceo-we-have-to-get-rid-net-neutrality-otherwise-self-driving-cars-will-keep-crashing-into-each-other.shtml#c909
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:19:03 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/07565730182/nokia-ceo-we-have-to-get-rid-net-neutrality-otherwise-self-driving-cars-will-keep-crashing-into-each-other.shtml#c909Luckily our current road system is already highly organized and planned out logically so that we can program vehicles to drive on them.

Once self-driving cars are everywhere though, it will be easy to restructure things for their benefit (and improved safety).]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c71
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:17:20 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c71Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/07565730182/nokia-ceo-we-have-to-get-rid-net-neutrality-otherwise-self-driving-cars-will-keep-crashing-into-each-other.shtml#c888
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:14:58 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/07565730182/nokia-ceo-we-have-to-get-rid-net-neutrality-otherwise-self-driving-cars-will-keep-crashing-into-each-other.shtml#c888Re: Re: Re: Timing...https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1393
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:13:10 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1393Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c65
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:11:52 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c65The ONLY thing that suprises mehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c244
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:11:30 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c244https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c63
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:10:02 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c63The infamous Velvet Elvis painting might serve as an example of that.]]>Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c242
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:07:04 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c242Re: Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/07565730182/nokia-ceo-we-have-to-get-rid-net-neutrality-otherwise-self-driving-cars-will-keep-crashing-into-each-other.shtml#c864
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:06:26 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/07565730182/nokia-ceo-we-have-to-get-rid-net-neutrality-otherwise-self-driving-cars-will-keep-crashing-into-each-other.shtml#c864The question though is where these cars would be the most use. To me the answer would be interstates and in cities. These places tend to have better maintained roads. So sure you have to drive manually in some areas, but if you start with major roads you can move out.

Also, admittedly the lines would have issues of being obscured, but putting lines was just the easiest solution to implement. You could also use in ground wires sending a signal much like how dog underground fences work. There are lots of ideas for ways you could guide a car and ideally your system would use at least two systems that were independent of each other.

I for one also would have a really hard time trusting an automated car to deal well with snow and ice no matter what system you have to drive it.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c49
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:06:04 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c49Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c46
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:04:43 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c46free? Without paying the author every single time someone reads it? For shame you filthy pirate, why with an attitude like that, it's only a matter of time until people stop writing books altogether and culture itself dies off.

If an author isn't paid every time someone reads their books, then what's the point of writing?]]>Re: Dealbreaker for mehttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c235
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:01:15 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c235THIS convinced you? Not the campaign of abuse against her husband's accusers? Not the turtle head act she pulled during her husband's scandal, setting back women's rights singlehandedly? Not the shady money pouring into the Clinton Foundation from foreign governments?

The Clinton family is easily the worst political family of our time and there have been some real shitheads here....]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c22
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:58:22 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/08563830196/connecticut-town-takes-down-painting-including-image-mother-teresa-over-ip-challenges.shtml#c22Re: I wonder...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c248
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:58:05 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150302/05161330177/unsealed-document-fbi-admits-stingray-devices-will-disrupt-phone-service.shtml#c248Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What sacred cow did I step on this time??https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/16590730062/mandatory-sentencing-guidelines-have-nothing-to-do-with-justice.shtml#c965
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:57:15 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/16590730062/mandatory-sentencing-guidelines-have-nothing-to-do-with-justice.shtml#c965Naw. You guys are too true-blue to try anything so despicable and underhanded and downright NSA-like, I'm sure.

(We now return this blog to the topic at hand.)]]>Re: Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/07565730182/nokia-ceo-we-have-to-get-rid-net-neutrality-otherwise-self-driving-cars-will-keep-crashing-into-each-other.shtml#c860
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:53:56 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/07565730182/nokia-ceo-we-have-to-get-rid-net-neutrality-otherwise-self-driving-cars-will-keep-crashing-into-each-other.shtml#c860Imagine just driving onto the interstate hitting a button and kicking back till you get an alarm telling you your exit is coming up. As you get to the exit you take back control and start driving again, if you don't take control the car parks to the side of the exit ramp. This would certainly make long drives much easier wouldn't it?]]>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1368
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:52:29 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1368We could start with a little history, maybe. Look at how the free ungoverned new world residents were suddenly not-free, when Christopher Columbus' heavily armed free enterprise practitioners came ashore. So what is meant by "freedom," and for whom? We could examine the nightmare socialist nations of Scandinavia and compare standards of living there with Somalia's, where freedom reigns. We could try to unpack your "free market in India has solved poverty" claim, by working our way through several centuries of history related to that populist Ghandi (Boooo!) who helped free India from the oppressive British government (Yaaay!) which led to millions dying as Muslims and Hindus separated into Pakistan and India (Booo!) after which India formed a more stable government (Boooo!) which laid the social and regulatory framework on which business depends today. (Booo! Yaaay! I think, . . . ) Then of course delve into how a century of progress in technology independent of events in India makes your arithmetic of government and free market just a tad simplistic. But I'll leave it at that. You can stay in your corner rocking to your libertarian mantra if that's what makes you happy.]]>Re: Re: Let me see if I have this straighthttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c220
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:51:26 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150303/04491030191/there-is-no-way-that-hillary-clinton-didnt-know-she-was-supposed-to-use-government-email-account.shtml#c220Re: Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1351
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:51:17 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150302/08162630183/hysterical-facts-optional-assault-fccs-new-neutrality-rules-has-commenced.shtml#c1351It could provide a way out for people who subscribe to the idea that voting for a third party candidate (who they actually support/like) is "throwing a vote away." They could vote third party, and just rank their D/R candidate as their second choice.]]>Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What sacred cow did I step on this time??https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/16590730062/mandatory-sentencing-guidelines-have-nothing-to-do-with-justice.shtml#c964
Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:50:46 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150217/16590730062/mandatory-sentencing-guidelines-have-nothing-to-do-with-justice.shtml#c964..this one, or this one, or this one, or this one, etc."

And you disagree with all of those posts?? Impressive.

That explains much, but thanks for reading them anyways.

I do hope they did not in any way contaminate your mind with anything that's not on your approved thought list. :)